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No Fix for Word Next 'Patch Tuesday'

Posted by Zonk on from the that's-cool-nobody-uses-word-anyway dept.

Sktea writes "A spokesman for Microsoft has said that they will issue no patches on the next 'Patch Tuesday' for versions of Word vulnerable to the recent zero-day threat. There is no mention whatsoever of the omission in the latest advance notification at the company's security site." From the article: "The software maker is working on a security update, but apparently needs more time. The company did not specify how many flaws Tuesday's updates will address or in which components of Windows the holes lie. The Visual Studio update could offer a patch for a zero-day vulnerability in the developer tools that was made public last month. "

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  1. Re:Does this mean a new catch phrase? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    No, they just REALLY want everyone to "upgrade" to Word 2007, and its own collection of vulnerabilities.
    They HOPE that by the time those vulnerabilities are exploited, they will have Word 2009 (or whatever) ready....and so on!

  2. mod 04 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  3. meanwhile, firefox... by yulek · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    meanwhile the firefox team still hasn't fixed the password manager vulnerability...

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    in this age of communication i'm just not getting through